We have now arrived at another very important ordinance—the laying on of hands for the reception of the Holy Ghost; but before I enter upon an investigation of this, permit me to produce a few more passages of the sacred word in proof of baptism; for instance, the baptism of Paul by Ananias—the baptism of the jailer—the baptism of the people on the coast of Ephesus—the positive declaration of Paul to the Colossians to be buried with the Lord in baptism, and thereby pass through the similitude of his resurrection, together with the plain and pointed assertion of the apostle Peter in his first epistle, when speaking of the deluge which covered the whole earth, or, in other words, its baptism, he has given us to understand the like figure whereunto even baptism doth now save us—not the washing away of the filth of the flesh, but the assurance of a good conscience before God.